The Creator (2023)
This was one of my most anticipated movies this year. Gareth Edwards, I think is one of the most talented directors out there and I was very excited to see what he could bring to a Sci-fi like this one. I was glad to see him receive a big project where the great Hans Zimmer was composing the score.
This was a pretty good movie. It was imperfectly satisfying. It was a bit shallow and a bit messy, but it still succeeded in its job.
Given the progress of AI right now, this was more or less the perfect time to release a story like this, involving a very grim war between the humans and the AI. I was very surprised by how grim this movie was. Although it does struggle in portraying that grim tone at times.
This movie is visually stunning, directed beautifully and it has a great soundtrack, as you'd expect from a combination of Gareth Edwards and Hans Zimmer.
But it's imperfect in terms of its characters, storytelling and tone. First of all I thought they should have explored how the conflict between the humans and the AI arose. Yeah, they do mention the brief reasons how, but it's just not enough for me to buy the hatred and the rage of humans against the AI. In the first half of the film, it sends mixed signals about which side is right and which is wrong. That goes away in the second half though, when the movie forms a definite opinion on this war. The characters too aren't really well explored and we're just sort of supposed to accept their motivations and actions.
That being said, I mentioned this movie was imperfectly SATISFYING. Because this movie is definitely satisfying. The second half of this film holds a tremendous amount of emotional weight with a very moving and well executed finale that made my eyes water. When the movie was over and the lights turned on, I saw that the person next to me was crying. That tells you about how the finale of the movie is. It was frankly very refreshing too because that's why an audience should go to the movie, to experience it.
I had a good time with this one. It might not be the great movie that I was expecting it to be, but it was still surprising, and worth seeing on the big screen.
This was one of my most anticipated movies this year. Gareth Edwards, I think is one of the most talented directors out there and I was very excited to see what he could bring to a Sci-fi like this one. I was glad to see him receive a big project where the great Hans Zimmer was composing the score.
This was a pretty good movie. It was imperfectly satisfying. It was a bit shallow and a bit messy, but it still succeeded in its job.
Given the progress of AI right now, this was more or less the perfect time to release a story like this, involving a very grim war between the humans and the AI. I was very surprised by how grim this movie was. Although it does struggle in portraying that grim tone at times.
This movie is visually stunning, directed beautifully and it has a great soundtrack, as you'd expect from a combination of Gareth Edwards and Hans Zimmer.
But it's imperfect in terms of its characters, storytelling and tone. First of all I thought they should have explored how the conflict between the humans and the AI arose. Yeah, they do mention the brief reasons how, but it's just not enough for me to buy the hatred and the rage of humans against the AI. In the first half of the film, it sends mixed signals about which side is right and which is wrong. That goes away in the second half though, when the movie forms a definite opinion on this war. The characters too aren't really well explored and we're just sort of supposed to accept their motivations and actions.
That being said, I mentioned this movie was imperfectly SATISFYING. Because this movie is definitely satisfying. The second half of this film holds a tremendous amount of emotional weight with a very moving and well executed finale that made my eyes water. When the movie was over and the lights turned on, I saw that the person next to me was crying. That tells you about how the finale of the movie is. It was frankly very refreshing too because that's why an audience should go to the movie, to experience it.
I had a good time with this one. It might not be the great movie that I was expecting it to be, but it was still surprising, and worth seeing on the big screen.
